Annie Lennox Quotes
To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.
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A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
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I like retirement.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
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The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
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To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.
